54 IIORSE-EACING IN FRANCE 



M. Auguste Lupin ; Messrs. Lamplugh, Hurst, and — 

 soon to be very celebrated indeed — Charles Pratt, first 

 a jockey under the wing of Mr. H. Jennings and then 

 that trainer's successor. 



Of jockeys the most noted were (as early as 1826) 

 Hall, Webb, North, Boast, &c. ; and afterwards (from 

 1835 to 1859) Edgar Pavis (brother of Arthur Pavis), 

 Edwards, Flatman, Spreoty (whose name is indelibly 

 associated with Monarque), Boldrick, and Lamplugh 

 (both of them trainers as well as jockeys, and the 

 latter celebrated as both trainer and rider of the 

 almost fabulous French steeple-chaser Franc Picard), 

 C. Pratt, Chifney, J. Bartholomew, and especially 

 Kitchener (who was in later days to become distin- 

 guished beyond the rest by his two victories in the 

 Grand Prix de Paris, on Vermont over T. Chaloner, 

 on Blair Athol and on the moderate Glaneur over G. 

 Fordham on The Drummer, and by his triumphs in the 

 Goodwood and Brighton Cups on the back of Dollar). 

 These jockeys were English to a man ; and they and 

 their ' mates,' together with the aforesaid trainers and 

 their ' mates,' by marrying and giving in marriage, by 

 settling in ' la belle France ' and bringing over their 

 brethren and sisters and cousins and connections, esta- 

 blished what is called ' the English colony ' at Chantilly, 

 a colony so prosperous, powerful, numerous, and 

 increasing that the ' natives ' are said to be ' nowhere,' 

 to play second fiddle, and to have had to learn the 

 English language for greater ease of communication if 

 not in sheer self-defence. 



Howbeit there were even in the earlier days, both 

 before and after the first twenty years of the French 

 Turf, which the French Jockey Club laid down (so to 

 speak), some native jockeys, ' bred in France,' of no 



